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Want to find out which American company is winning the race to ferry astronauts to the ISS? Go here.

The race is only won when someone goes to the station and comes back safe.

First team to the goal wins all others are just losers. Second place is just the first loser.

In the corporate world the only real winner is the guy who can do it for the cheapest cost in the shortest amount of time.
Which might be any of them in the long run.
NASA used to be able to send a bunch of people up at once in the shuttle, but it cost to much and took to long.

“Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America’s quest for the moon… Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America’s greatest human triumphs.”
–San Antonio Express-News